On Thursday 24 August 2006 08:12, John Pierce wrote:

I have downloaded SMART and installed it on opensuse 10.1, when packages are installed or updated the rpm files are downloaded to /var/lib/smart/packages. I want to know if it is possible to move the storage location inside of the program or is it hardwired to /var/lib/smart/packages.

The reason, I have several computers on a local lan and all are (for the most part, some minor differences in applications) identical. When I run smart update on the various machines I find my self downloading the same packages multiple times. When I used fedora and yum, I set yum to look at an nfs mount called yumpackages, all of the machines would look at that location and realize the files had already been downloaded and did have to do it again. This approach save considerable time and bandwidth.

I don't believe you can point the packages to another folder without changing the main smart folder. The option in smart is: data-dir /var/lib/smart (directory) root of Smart control directories (You can fake it by making the packages folder a symbolic linkto another location.) To acheive your aim have an nfs share set up, and mount this on all machines as /var/lib/smart/packages. Things to be careful of: - All machines will need read/write access. - Each machine will, by default, erase files in this folder. Be sure to set remove-packages to false on all machines. - Over time the folder could get very large, so have a housekeeper cronjob to remove files older than say a month. If a machine hasn't upgraded by then, they probably won't require that particular file. - I can't tell you what will happen if two machines attempt to download the same update at the same time. -- Steve Boddy